Believe it or not there are currently over 3,030 versions of the Bible in over 2,011 languages available digitally on bible.com. Additionally there are versions in nearly 1,900 languages at faithcomesbyhearing.com and unbelievably another similar number on the American Bible Society’s bibles.org.
If that isn’t enough there is now a Jamaican Bible called Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment which is essentially a translation of the New Testament into Jamaican Patois prepared by the Bible Society of the West Indies in 2012. Have a look at the impact it is having on Jamaicans in Britain…
D Fitz-Roberts is a multi-talented writer on socio-economic issues having worked in journalism across the Caribbean (Grenada, Guyana and BVI) in the 90s. He has worked in London with Black Britain Online, New Nation Newspaper and Caribbean Times. An academic with a passion for research on distributed ledger technologies in emerging economies he is keen to see the Caribbean embrace bitcoin and blockchain technologies to keep pace with the west. He writes periodically for mainstream publications and is the founder of CaribDirect.com. He is also the author of Caribbean children’s book LifeSucks! available on Amazon.
